Automation & Scripting

Stop doing it by hand: Bash and Python scripts, scheduled jobs, APIs and CI/CD pipelines.

Intermediate 8 modules about 14 h Free
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  1. 1 Thinking in Automation What is worth automating, how to design a reliable job and the tools for each task. 20 min
  2. 2 Bash Scripting Essentials Variables, quoting, conditions, loops, functions and arguments in Bash. 40 min
  3. 3 Python for Automation Files, paths, subprocesses, arguments and logging for robust Python scripts. 40 min
  4. 4 Scheduling Jobs with cron and Timers Cron syntax, environment pitfalls, locking, logging and when to use systemd timers. 30 min
  5. 5 Automating with APIs and Webhooks Call REST APIs with retries and auth, receive webhooks securely and connect services. 35 min
  6. 6 CI/CD with GitHub Actions Run tests on every push, deploy automatically and handle secrets in pipelines. 40 min
  7. 7 Configuration Management with Ansible Describe servers as code, run idempotent playbooks and manage secrets with Vault. 35 min
  8. 8 Capstone: An Automated Operations Toolkit Combine scripts, schedules, alerts and pipelines into one maintainable toolkit. 45 min